Discipline and Practice: The (ir)resistibility of TheoryStefan Herbrechter, Ivan Callus Has theory become resistible? Has it betrayed its promise, and sold out on its practice? Should theory, after having become a discipline, still lay claims on the radical, or should it embrace its establishment within the university? What future(s) could theory have if there is (dis)agreement about its present(s) and its past(s), and what and how should it from now proceed to read? |
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What is a False Interpretation? | 64 |
Relevance and Disciplinary Resistance | 79 |
French ThinkingThinking French In Translation | 107 |
Giving Taking Leaving Belonging and the Remains of the University | 125 |
Naive Modernism and the Politics of Embarrassment | 154 |
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